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Poetry Friday: We Old Dudes

March 28, 2008 By Laura

 

Today is Poetry Friday, and I wish I could spend the day reading or writing poetry. But I’m going to the Mall. Yes, I capitalized Mall because it’s THE Mall, the Mall of America.

I do not like malls nor shopping all that much. But today’s the last day of Spring Break, and I’m taking both daughters to the Mall, where we’re meeting another mom and daughters to hang out. The older girls will probably window shop all day, and the younger girls and my friend and I will probably be in the theme park most of the day.

So anyway, I went looking for a poem about shopping or malls, and I found this clever 70+, white-bread version of the Gwendolyn Brooks classic “We Real Cool.”

We Old Dudes
by Joan Murray

We old dudes. We
White shoes. We

Golf ball. We
Eat mall. We

Soak teeth. We
Palm Beach; We

Vote red. We
Soon dead.

Source: Poetry (July 2006). 

Ha! Hope you have a terrific final day of spring break (if that applies to you). Be sure to check out the Poetry Friday Roundup at Cuentecitos!

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